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It looks like Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino’s trip down to bantamweight has begun! The featherweight champion will be gracing the cage in Invicta when she drops down to 140 for her next fight at “Invicta FC 15” in November. The news broke during the post-fight press conference after “Invicta FC 14” on Saturday night. Details surrounding...

Bellator ‘Dynamite’ is set to make history on Sept. 19. It will be the first event of its kind, featuring both MMA fights and GLORY Kickboxing fights in the same night, with a cage and a ring in the same arena. During the prelims some fights will even be going on at the same time....

Bellator MMA has announced the rules for their four-man, single-night light heavyweight tournament, which takes place at “Bellator 142: Dynamite” next week in California. The tournament includes former UFC standout Phil Davis taking on former Bellator title holder Emanuel Newton, as well as former Strikeforce champ Muhammed Lawal squaring off with Linton Vassell. In...

In a major announcement, Bellator MMA revealed on Thursday that Lenne Hardt, aka ‘The Crazy PRIDE Lady’ will be lending her unique voice to their big ‘Dynamite’ event. If you aren’t familiar with Hardt, she was the announcer for PRIDE back in the day and had a very interesting voice. Basically she sounded crazy...

Former UFC great, Chuck ‘The Iceman’ Liddell, is still involved with the fight game. He can be seen at UFC events all the time. There is no question the guy is a legend, with fights against Randy Couture, Tito Ortiz and Wanderlei Silva, the guys one of, if not, the most recognizable fighter in...

Former Bellator MMA middleweight champion Alexander Shlemenko has filed a lawsuit against the California State Athletic Commission. The commission suspended Shlemenko following his KO win over Melvin Manhoef, after it was discovered that he failed his post-fight drug test. The commission handed down the harshest penalty it had ever given since regulating MMA, with a...

Even though Ronda Rousey’s next opponent is already lined up, Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino is not backing off the trash talk. Tito Ortiz has chosen to keep quiet on trying to make Rousey/Cyborg happen, but “Cyborg” knows a payday when she sees one. After Rousey’s quick disposal of “Pitbull” Bethe Correia at UFC 190, fans and...

Bellator MMA will be putting on quite a show at their ‘Dynamite’ event coming up next month. There will be a cage for MMA fights and a ring for GLORY kickboxing matches in the same venue, something that really hasn’t been done before. The night will feature GLORY title fights and a Bellator light heavyweight...

Hey, remember when referee Yves Lavigne was tripping in the octagon, like literally tripping over his own feet. Well if you forgot, UFC president Dana White is issuing a reminder in the form of his daily clip. Today (Wednesday) the clip is from UFC 84, when Tito Ortiz took on Lyoto Machida. What also happened...

Bellator MMA boss Scott Coker is planning on Bellator 142 being a huge success. The event, called ‘Dynamite’ will feature a cross promotion with GLORY kickboxing and feature both a cage and a ring in one venue. Coker told MMAJunkie that they have already sold 5,500 tickets for the event and by the time...

Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre gave his first real interview with the media recently and talked about all kinds of hot topics in MMA. Pierre talked about his role in the sport, as a ‘good guy’ and said that if every fighter was like him than the sport would be very boring. He also...

Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre recently revealed who one of his all time favorite fighters is. Coming from a guy like GSP, his answer might surprise you. GSP, while recently talking to the media, said that one of his favorite fighters to watch was former UFC light heavyweight champ and current Bellator fighter Tito...

Bellator’s ground breaking event ‘Dynamite’, which will feature both a GLORY kickboxing ring and a Bellator cage in the same venue, just added another action packed fight. Paul Daley will take on Fernando Gonzalez in a kickboxing match. Both are Bellator Competitors, but will be stepping in the kickboxing ring on Sept. 19 in San...

Recent details were revealed behind Tito Ortiz’s claim that Cris “Cyborg” was offered a fight with Ronda Rousey in Dallas on December 5th that made everything a little more clear. While it was true that “Cyborg” received a call to fight in December at 135, it was NOT for a fight against the UFC Women’s...

AT&T Stadium will no longer host “UFC 194” on December 5, 2015 and any dreams Ronda Rousey and Conor McGregor had of selling the place out have been put on hold. Dana White confirmed that the winter card will now take place in Las Vegas, Nevada at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The topic arose...

Fans holding out for an announcement of Ronda Rousey facing Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino should keep their hopes up; The fight may just happen after all. After Ronda Rousey’s dominant performance at “UFC 190”, Dana White stated that “Cyborg” needs to prove that she can make 135 before the fight is even talked about. Since that...

UFC 190 goes down this Saturday live from the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The pay-per-view event is headlined by a women’s bantamweight title fight featuring current champion Ronda Rousey taking on top contender Bethe Correia. In the evening’s co-main event slot, former UFC light heavyweight champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua will battle Antonio...

“He’s such an icon for the sport. If he’s healthy and feels like fighting again, he should. The MMA world loves to watch him perform. There is always room for big icons like him. Tito Ortiz is still fighting, so is Quinton Jackson and Cro Cop. People want to see them fight. Sometimes there’s a...

The arena has been decided and Bellator officials released the first rendering of what the arena will look like when Dynamite goes live. Bellator and GLORY’s Dynamite event is set to take place at the SAP Center in San Jose, California on September 19th with a main card that will air on SPIKE. The event...

It’s official, Kimbo vs. Shamrock broke records this past Friday night. The event was Bellator’s most watched event in its history and at it’s peak garnered a whopping 2.4 million viewers. The peak came, of course, during the nights main event between Kimbo Slice and Ken Shamrock. During 11:51 to 11:54 p.m. the broadcast averaged...

Bellator 138 aired live from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri and featured a main event bout between the popular Kimbo Slice and Ken Shamrock. Slice defeated Shamrock by way of TKO in the opening round after nearly getting submitted in the opening minutes of the contest. The ratings are in and it turns...

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and his “bigger” brother Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira will be fighting on the same card at the upcoming UFC 190 card in Brazil. Rogerio, or “Little Nog”, prefers NOT to fight on the same card as his brother, “Big Nog”. “I don’t like it, it makes me nervous, man. I never liked...

Kimbo Slice and Ken Shamrock’s fight last Friday night could go down as the most viewed event in Bellator history, but there is a chance they will break that record with their upcoming September super-card. Bellator announced the joint venture with GLORY which is set to air on September 19, 2015. The super-card will feature...

If you watched the Bellator 138 event on Spike TV then you probably saw the live announcement they did during the broadcast, announcing the event in September that will feature a title fight between the champ and Tito Ortiz and a cross promotion with GLORY kickboxing. Also announced was a one-night four man tournament featuring...

“Tito Ortiz set the benchmark with the Bonnar fight and we’d like to beat that record. That’s a milestone.” “Here we are back so many years later putting that fight together. There’s a circle of life here to this fight. And I’m excited to watch it. I’m telling you right now, there’s some heat between...

Tito Ortiz and Stephan Bonnar shattered Bellator ratings in November when they clashed in the main-event of Bellator 131. Ortiz smothered and dominated Bonnar in a one sided victory, and the two teased a follow up bout to break more records. Scott Coker doesn’t think they will need a rematch to break records as Ken...

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson has had a rough couple of years when it comes to appearing in courtrooms, but it appears one of his impending lawsuits have finally been settled. Tito Ortiz was on a mission years ago to brand Juanito Ibarra as a “thief” for overcharging Jackson in several of his training camps leading up...

Brendan Schaub was one of the interesting stories to come out after the UFC/Reebok deal pay amounts were announced. Schaub came out and said that he would be losing a whole lot of money with the deal because he was making six figures in sponsorship pay by himself. Since then UFC president Dana White has...

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